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Create the PrepareRelease script to process the documentation and create the
.generic files for distribution, also to remove trailing spaces. Update a lot
more of the build-time documentation. Arrange for PrepareRelease and its
sub-scripts to be distributed.

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ChangeLog for PCRE

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Version 7.1 05-Mar-07

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1. Applied Bob Rossi and Daniel G's patches to convert the build system to one

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that is more "standard", making use of automake and other autotools. There

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is some re-arrangement of the files and adjustment of comments consequent

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on this.

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2. Part of the patch fixed a problem with the pcregrep tests. The test of -r

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for recursive directory scanning broke on some systems because the files

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are not scanned in any specific order and on different systems the order

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was different. A call to "sort" has been inserted into RunGrepTest for the

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approprate test as a short-term fix. In the longer term there may be an

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alternative.

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3. I had an email from Eric Raymond about problems translating some of PCRE's

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man pages to HTML (despite the fact that I distribute HTML pages, some

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people do their own conversions for various reasons). The problems

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concerned the use of low-level troff macros .br and .in. I have therefore

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removed all such uses from the man pages (some were redundant, some could

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be replaced by .nf/.fi pairs). The maintain/132html script that I use to

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generate HTML has been updated to handle .nf/.fi and to complain if it

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encounters .br or .in.

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4. Updated comments in configure.ac that get placed in config.h.in and also

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arranged for config.h to be included in the distribution, with the name

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config.h.generic, for the benefit of those who have to compile without

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Autotools (compare pcre.h, which is now distributed as pcre.h.generic).

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5. Updated the support (such as it is) for Virtual Pascal, thanks to Stefan